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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1912
Page
2
An 19th century ad touts Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as a tonic and alterative. It claims alcohol-free formulas and promotes remedies for bilious attacks, sick headaches, indigestion, and constipation with a single nightly pill. It warns to ask a doctor about endorsement and dose.
An Iowa State College expert argues vast cornstalk waste equates to lost feed value. He calculates silage and cottonseed meal substitute for clover hay, valuing stalks at about 24 dollars per acre, with Iowa alone losing 50 to 125 million dollars annually.
The Scientific American describes a wind driven chime by a Philadelphia man. It uses a vane and multiple plates set at right angles to capture gusts and tilt toward the wind. Plates vary in size to produce octave tones, arranged in two overlapping series with a bar suspended between.
An Arkansas inventor attaches a lamp to the side of a multi compartment dinner pail. The oil lamp heats all nested pans, warming contents beyond the bottom water bath. The device aims to improve hot lunches for laborers who previously settled for tepid meals.
Examination of shooting star observations from 1866 to 1911 in Bristol shows meteor frequency peaks at the end of July and start of August. In the first half of each year only about six meteors per hour were seen on clear moonless nights, with a rise noted by early July.
The two week agricultural course at the University of Illinois featured a corn, cat and wheat contest. Grand champion corn prize went to W. Q. Griffith of McNabb, Putnam County, Illinois, who also won first prize for the best ears. The winning field yielded 80 bushels per acre from a 100-acre site fertilized with rock phosphate and manure. Griffith has bred high-yield corn for a decade at Magnolia experimental plots.
A. V. Schermerhorn argues for boosting Illinois farming wealth through increased crop yields. He cites 1895 as the start of the Illinois Farmers' Institute and the crop gains from improved methods, urging lumber dealers and professionals to support scientific agriculture via experiment stations and affiliated institutes.
Assistant Secretary W. M. Hays urged a world census classifying all people by age, mental aptitude, and genetics to guide scientific marriage. He spoke before the American Breaders Association, part of the AAAS, advocating heredity improvements and larger families for the more efficient. The plan aimed to rank individuals by racial, religious, and genetic criteria to shape future population.
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